âJourney of the Freckled Indianâ
A childrenâs book and upcoming series by Tlingit writer Alyssa London challenge misconceptions about Indigenous identity
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May 4, 2021
Alyssa London, Tlingit, who won the Miss Alaska USA pageant in 2017, has written a children s book about growing up in a multicultural family, Journey of the Freckled Indian. A series of books and a television shows is now planned. (Photo courtesy of Alyssa London)
A childrenâs book and upcoming series by Tlingit writer Alyssa London challenge misconceptions about Indigenous identity
Richard Arlin Walker
When Alyssa London, Tlingit, was growing up, she didn’t meet her peers’ expectations of what an Indigenous person would look like.
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on April 29, 2021
Elizabeth Reese, Yunpoví (Willow Flower in the Tewa language), was born on the Nambé Pueblo reservation, one of the oldest continually inhabited Indigenous communities in the U.S. that sits just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico and where she is tribally enrolled. She grew up immersed in Nambé’s culture, participating in traditions that date back thousands of years to that exact location.
But when her parents decided to pursue Ph.D. degrees, her family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois where they found themselves the only Native American family in a town where the mascot of the local university, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was a racist caricature of a Native American person. Though Reese remained close to her community, spending summers and holidays at the Pueblo, she experienced racially-charged bullying in her new town. Always, she was the only Native person in her classes. She never had a Native
After getting Stanford to drop Indians, he wonders why Cleveland took so long
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From left, Stanford head coach Ray Young, pitching coach Tom Dunton and assistant coach Mark Marquess wearing the Indians uniform in 1971. The university dropped the nickname in 1972 after a protest movement by Native American students.Unknown / Stanford AthleticsShow MoreShow Less
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Basketball UCLA vs Stanford, 21 February 1958. Sports . (Sleeve reads: SP 12286).;Supplementary material lists: UCLA Bruins alphabetical roster;Stanford Indians alphabetical roster . (For a complete list, please see original).. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images)University of Southern California / Corbis via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less